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Volume 29, Number 1—January 2023
Dispatch

Photobacterium damselae subspecies damselae Pneumonia in Dead, Stranded Bottlenose Dolphin, Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Danny MorickComments to Author , Shlomo E. Blum, Nadav Davidovich, Ziv Zemah-Shamir, Eyal Bigal, Peleg Itay, Assaf Rokney, Iris Nasie, Noa Feldman, Marcelo Flecker, Mia Roditi-Elasar, Kobi Aharoni, Yotam Zuriel, Natascha Wosnick, Dan Tchernov, and Aviad P. Scheinin
Author affiliations: University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel (D. Morick, N. Davidovich, Z. Zemah-Shamir, E. Bigal, P. Itay, M. Roditi-Elasar, Y. Zuriel, D. Tchernov, A.P. Scheinin); Hong Kong Branch of Southern Marine Science and Engineering, Guangzhou, China (D. Morick, D. Tchernov); Kimron Veterinary Institute, Bet Dagan, Israel (S.E. Blum, M. Flecker); Israeli Veterinary Services, Bet Dagan (N. Davidovich); Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel (A. Rokney, I. Nasie, N. Feldman); Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel (K. Aharoni); Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil (N. Wosnick)

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Figure 1

Photobacterium damselae subspecies damselae pneumonia in a bottlenose dolphin, eastern Mediterranean Sea. Gross pathologic examination of the dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) showed a scar (oval) at the right side of the chest (A) that might be a sign for a previous wound that initiated the infection (B, C). Four abscesses, 5–10 cm in diameter, filled with purulent fluid and necrotic debris were observed in the right lung of the animal. Hemolytic phenotype of the P. damselae subsp. damselae isolate on sheep blood agar (D) indicates the border of the halo of 1 colony (arrow). A weak hemolytic phenotype was observed after culturing isolate on blood agar plates for 24 h.

Figure 1. Photobacterium damselae subspecies damselae pneumonia in a bottlenose dolphin, eastern Mediterranean Sea. Gross pathologic examination of the dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) showed a scar (oval) at the right side of the chest (A) that might be a sign for a previous wound that initiated the infection (B, C). Four abscesses, 5–10 cm in diameter, filled with purulent fluid and necrotic debris were observed in the right lung of the animal. Hemolytic phenotype of the P. damselae subsp. damselae isolate on sheep blood agar (D) indicates the border of the halo of 1 colony (arrow). A weak hemolytic phenotype was observed after culturing isolate on blood agar plates for 24 h.

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